Windley Classic 22 Sailboats for Sale

Hull Type

Monohull · centerboard

Rig

Fractional Sloop

LOA

21.67' · 6.61 m

Disp.

2,300 lbs · 1,043 kg

First year

1989

The Windley Classic 22 occupies a distinctive niche in the trailersailer market, representing the final evolution of a design lineage that began in the late 1970s. Designed by Stuart Windley, the boat's hull was originally introduced as the LockleyNewport LN23 before being modified and marketed as the Gloucester 22 by Gloucester Yachts in 1983. Following the collapse of Gloucester Yachts in 1988, a former dealer named John Heaton acquired the production tooling and founded Classic Yachts Inc. in Chanute, Kansas 4. In 1989, Heaton rereleased the design as the Classic 22. It is vital to distinguish this vessel from the entirely unrelated 1962 Classic 22 designed by George Cuthbertson and built by Canada's Grampian Marine, which was a finkeeled club racer 6. In contrast, the Windley Classic 22 was conceived as an easily trailerable, beachable pocket cruiser that combined a modern fractional rig with a shallowdraft hull form. Production of this model continued in modest numbers until 2000, when a catastrophic factory fire destroyed the Classic Yachts facility, bringing an abrupt end to the company and the model's run.